October. the start of fall, so they say, but can still have a Indian Summer. Leaves are changing color and there is a chill in the air. What else does it make you think of? For me, it is the mysteries that each town has.. us too!
Let me set the scene. The year 1906, the place, the Western House Hotel here in Village of Springville, Town of Concord. The action, a card game being played on a table inside, and a quarrel that moved to outside in front of the Western House, between Fred Percival, a teamster for the Honorable L J Shuttleworth, Fred Schneider, a member of the B R & P fence gang and Peter & Martin Harbars who were brothers. Fred Percival in a fight, knocked the two brothers down. They left to go home with Martin returning after a short while with a revolver and then he shoot both Percival and Schneider. Percival, shot in the groin, was able to walk down the street a little way to the American Hotel, waking up Frank McLin to request a drink, telling him, I have been shot up, and then..... he died. Schneider was shot in two places and managed to crawl to the field behind the Hotel where he was found the next morning. Martin Harbar was found a day later, lying across the railroad track, his head was severed from his body and a not found in his pocket, admitted to his guilt of shooting the two men. His brother Peter remarked that had it not been for the booze there would have been no trouble at all. Do you think these three men still walk the tavern, drinking together, and maybe playing cards? I wonder who is holding the ace of spades.
I got to see if I can find some more!!
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